The Cocoa Café Chronicles

<p><strong>Welcome to the Cocoa Café Chronicles-where whimsy meets wonder and every sip of story is brewed with magic.</strong></p><p></p><p>You've just inherited a cocoa café nestled in a wind-whipped harbor village. There's barely time to find the sugar jar before <em>something goes terribly deliciously wrong.</em></p><p></p><p>What happens next? Twelve striking storytellers from the LegendFiction community lean in-each spinning their own riotous heartfelt and cocoa-drenched tale of what unfolds when fate fantasy and a steaming mug collide.</p><p></p><p>Inside you'll meet:</p><ul><li><ul><li>A young shop owner with a dying hearth rune takes on a stray young woman with more power than he realizes.</li><li>An aging elf recounts her escapades outwitting a chocolate-drunken fairy festival.</li><li>An elderly knight with a screw or two loose is transported to the future and valiantly saves a kingdom-er cocoa shop.</li><li>A teenage girl living in a floating space colony welcomes some rough-on-the-run-miners into her family's chocolate bar. Warm drinks on her.</li><li>A new inheritor finds that her late uncle had not just debts but <em>pirate</em> debts.</li><li>A young man risks his life to rescue his younger brother from the Governor's Arena.</li><li>A weary cat scrounges for life-and love-in the underbelly of a down-on-its-luck harbor. </li><li>Two singers find a once-in-a-lifetime love by the seaside. </li><li>Two chaotic brothers make a myriad of zany attempts at evading the notorious diminutive Darius K. Truffle.</li><li>A young human resists siren songs to protect a helpless customer.</li><li>A con artist schemes his suspicious uncle into buying an abandoned cocoa café. </li><li>The Prince of Death house-flips the rotting-away chocolate tavern that once belonged to his mortal mother.</li></ul></li></ul><p></p><p>Come for the cocoa. Stay for the stardust the soul and the storytelling.</p><p></p><p><strong>The mugs are warm. The tales are wilder than you expect.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Welcome to the café. We saved you a seat.</strong></p><p></p><p>Edited by Gabriella Batel</p>